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FOR SALE-LOTS.

FOR SALE-LOTS.
Ths corner Of 10th and L..renes .t:, O. By 100
Ola. 1903 :. nv.
+ The n ". corner 18th st. and Rhode Island ave.
Az very aesir.Iis .iss which win. it 10
0ss'sa by 0'~'''-n oaT W. ~ e SJ s.s Cen.
l|ok s SAIL 3 LOT on 18th ST. NEAR
4 n only ~ ''.' Per loot l. r HxRTroRp
oaO-lw' i423S p st
4. OR sALE-A VERY DESIRABLE LOT, NohTH-
-. sSsSa 81 DSt AM = 4
l(oR sALLE-0RIcINAL LOIS 10 AND Is. IN
=. .ou.s MS: aud Large s.Ss .sssr S.,sr and gas
ownsr. 2sa p foth st s'' '''"' 'AN ha oisiS
LrOR sALE-BY THE COOPERATIVE INVEST.
B.. HsisE = c per lot: on ssn 81. near East c.,a-
to. with improvements. osc pei loot; sth 81.
% CHSS sAIb iSoa per M. loot Or s A
director or member Of the Company. ol5-7t
Eok sALE.yALUAsLE LOIS. WITH BUILDING,
q sss 40. .. .':i 1 Il ssts y
4 ,OR SALE : SPLENDID LOT ON MASS AVE,
hear 9TH st, 80 VI 10y feet to 2ofoot alley Price
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10! block SO. ,oluinuia iaeishts corner Kenyon
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Lois and 10. 80 1918 Ut the corner of Mxss.chu
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+ Pst. bet 18th and 18th. e3,lo2. rear and
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2ist 81 &. h ns. aH y. "a; loo 8 az
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MEANS IA Free
oSsof .. .Ys sS'ss H1 1907
lrOR sALE-LAR9E NUMBER OF DESIRABLE
Il building lots adjoining the city, mort east lying
between I'd aud 9th sta e. aud aud U n kckug.
ton. nne estate adjoining the city northeast and
formerly the residence VI Joseph GALES. ESQ hss been
suudivided into desirable building lots, aud 10 now
aaaition TO sshngton City and the and
nues have been laid cut the scale aud
directly wi n the city streets; already handsoie
Cottages are IN process VI erection sewerage gas and
water will he furnished to tnvse desiring 10 build,
prces range from cents ~ - per loot accord
ing ocAton. For pat and further ap.
Si-im w. A'Ss
REsT INvEsTMENTIN THIS CITY; $3.50 WILL
Obiy beautifully loDsted buildih lots grade wide
Ess aud wster In street; square l02l Easy terms
n A PHIlLIPS.
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Tho American Street Railway Association has
nxed upon Washington a. the place for holding Its
next cUnvention- II the meeting were 10 be held
here this fall washingtons principal hope would
b that the members OF tue association would
patron1e n least once their own special means OF
conveyance In making the rounds OF the city. For
when they had fell the dlscomforts of travel on
some OF our local lines they would be pretty sure
70 bring pressure 70 bear on the Washington street
railway Managers 10 procure q better service for
public that gives them 10 generous D trona1e
But their convention does not occur so soon and
before they come TO Us the city may be better pre-
% ed 10 be Inspected ~ them, and need less the
eenent OF reproachiul criticism In this regard The
Interest taken by the local street railway men In
Improved motors, enlivened p rhaps by the pros
pect OF a thorough examination OF the matter OF
our street railways by the Senate this winter gives
promise that the Guys hop deferred Will not be de.
ferred much longer, and that the visiting associa-
ton Will 1nd here TO admire a model railway sys-
tenn In convenience, rapidly. s,fety and comfort
curious situation in labor matters Is that
which prevails In q city In central New York.
where o German born citizen who has always
shown himself . good friend 70 the workIngmen Il
about building brick burn The contractor to
whom he let the work Is a German and a Knight
OF Labor. and has engaged for his laborers men,
oers OF the local German Brfcklayers' Assembly
But now comes the Bricklayers' Trade Union
which insists under threats OF boycott, that the
knights shall os discharged and union men put In
their places. The knights say that they viii
bring their whole order TO the patronage Of the
victims OF the boycott they are retained and the
union dened They had the good sense at the
same time not TO threaten a boycott them,elv
a. penalty for discharying them The contractor
has wisely Determined to stand by the men he had
already engaged, preferring-race partisanship
wholly aside-Jo deal with laborers who do not
resort 70 ooycottS This would be rood examine
for employer, everywhere TO follow. It would
tend TO make ooycotts unpopular and inspire
workingmen with Independence enough not 10
take part In them
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COUNTRY REAL ESTATE.
lfOR sALE-A CoINIRY RESIDENCE WITH EN
Il Acres VI Ground. with excellent imIrovemenn
~ srose VIA vsr, Q, cho,oe d,s IN an.
Prise tue Applicant for Particular sddres D. ~
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Eon sALE-A SMALL FARM or IS ACRES.
sf d ' ,si 40 S se; f fs .s sa''' oao.
IyOA .sALts-FARM OF 205 ACRES IN MARY
Also arm, near osrreiI Para, 300 .cre-. at s75 -
acre. J. X hkkItonD. l42Ss st o2o-lS.
NOR sALE-LoTsA KNOWLES; 2h TO 81 cTA
Per square foot; nonthly pay withou. ihtSrr
to 20 Gems er - uare loot hrs LUC. A. hU-s AR
circulating Llbr.ry, l1.s fenn.yly.nl. ave ols 81
4, on sALL--.,pENN- DLAk.s--A sEAulIfuL,
VA, Ililes from .snineton, containing 50 scrss Of
hne Ial.d Get clover sDd u,nothy lilly stoekel;
new ouIbuiidnss. vel. fenced iraat tssssi very high
s.sT.Sn ss,Ss ss sc i. e "a ''- o,!r
EVn BALE = -RAy y..ns a., AT HfarTs-
surrounded by be uiiiu! s.-@is tress donsle house
xss 3, ~ a ss s.s .I - = .s 9 = e
For IN. ihsr inior'ast,.n sItas 70 nov
o,sa, "-s.o-i isc S4'f icss.y 4 Sls =.
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i lam tor tru. sr.in or .,ok sytso.s Iand: 100
lcrs; 81 miles nv. q Y q srt u vsyassi; good
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AN INVITATION ACCEPTED.

The President and Mrs. Cleveland
to Visit st. Louis in September.
A delegation of leading citizens of st.
Louis, headed by the Mayor, called at the
White House OH Monday and extended an in
vitation to the President and Mrs Cleveland
to visit the Western city next fall.
The invitation was contained in large,
elegantly bound book with carved wooden
covers the carvings representing the gs;,a great
bridge and the .principa! municipal build
ings of st. Louis. The clasps and
edges of the book were of solid silver
bearing the initials "G c." The invitation
was beautifully engrossed Oh satin, and is
signed by over 70, QUO persons
Mayor Francis made q short address, in
which he said that while the people of st.
Louis would be glad and honored to receive o
visit from the President at any time, it would
probably afford them great pleasure if he
could arrange to be in ST. Louis during
tember next. The committee. he said, de
sired to supplement the invitation of the
Grand Army men, but if the President could
not come during their encampment they
would like him to come whenever he found it
convenient and they would assure him warm
welcome.
The President made brief reply in which
he said that while it was absolutely i'm
possible to anticipate the exigencies of the
public service so far ahead as September, he
could not now see why he should not visit st
| Louis at the time indicated-about the last OF
September. He said therefore that he would
| take pleasure il accepting their kind invita-
| ton.
The committee subsequently extended in
vitations to members Of the President.
| Cabinet
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

REYNOLDS the man arrested at MOTIFS
town, N. j., for blasphemy, was found guilty
on Friday notwithstanding bob" lngersoiIs
plea on his behalf, and sentenced topay hne
Of so5.
THE great strike of coke workers m the
Connellsville penny region has resulted IN
bloodshed, two workmen at SchoonmaHers
works being fatally and others badly beaten
by crowd of strikers.
FIVE whites and three negroes were whip
ped from five TO ten lashes each at Newcastle.
DEL, on Saturday for larceny, and William
Norris, colored, convicted of assault with in
tent to kill, stood one hour in the pillory.
A LETTER has been published in New York
from the Pope to Archbishop Corrigan, up
holding him in the matter of the suspension
Of the Rev. DR.. McGlynn, and condemning
the suspended priests doctrines.
A PLEASURE yacht containing eight persons
rapsized in the Delaware river at Phila-
aelphia. Three young men and two young
ladies were drowned.
MISS IDA WEsNER, the beautiful and only
daughter of wealthy parents at Glendonvllle,
Penn, has eloped with her fathers colored
coachman, a married man. She left note
saying she had become strangely infatuated
and could not help her action.
A LION belonging to Actor Frank Frayne
escaped from his cage in barn near Madl-
son, n. j., and killed a valuable horse.
Frayne succeeded in lassoing the lion. who
was making meal of the horse, and dragged
him back into the cage. but was bitten in the
arm during the struggle.
A New YORK infant Of two years died in
intense pain from the effects of spiders bite.
REV. DIR. McGLyNN, the suspended New
York priest, has been ordered by the Pope to
20 to Rome within forty days under pain OF
accommodation.
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According to Bradstreet's, Great Brit

According to Braastreefs, Great Brit
ain continues to be supreme in the manu-.
facture of tin plates, notwithstanding the
fact that it no longer relies on Cornwall
for its raw material. Nearly all the tin
used in the manufacture is from East In.
dia or Australia. The latter ores are rich
in metallic tin. Cornwall ore only pos
sesses from l to per cent. of pure tln'
and is therefore but little used. Germany
is next in importance as q manufacturer
of tin plates. Wrought iron has been su'
peseded by steel as the base of tin plate
manufacture. About 5000, 900 boxes are
produced each year, each box weighing
11s pounds, if of standard gauge. Each
sheet weighs one pound, and conse.
quently there are 112 sheets to the box.
In box weighing 112 pounds s7} per
cent. of the weight is made up of stee!
plates and 81 per cent is the tin coating.
OF the total British manufacture Of tin
plates o-thirds-or about $500, 600
boxes-are exported. The manufacture
Is centered in South Wales, chiefly in
Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire and
Caermarthenshire.
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MANY valuable improvements have
been lately made in the manufacture
of asbestos paint in England. In the
tests made of its efficiency, a piece of
light pine wood, about six inches long
by four inches square, painted with
five coats, was placed for upward of
half an hour III an ordinary CRATE fire,
but, although the wood within was re-
duced to charcoal, there was no blaze
whatever emitted during the charring.
Again., small model theater, built of
wood, with set scenes and accessories,
was sprinkled with turpentine and set
on fire; every portion ignited, and the
whole was consumed. As.milar model,
with the set scenes and the wood franz
ing all painted with asbestos, was
drenched with turpentine and set on
fire, but the thin scenes were only par
TALLY charred at the lower ends with
the turpentine flames, while the tim
bering was not even ignited.
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AN old Congressman, writes Wash
ington correspondent, was remarking
upon the length of time that Repre-
sentative Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had
been the @Father of the House, which
means not the member of longest ser
vice, but the member of longest con.
tinuous service. If S. S. Cox had not
missed one year of service in Congress
by resigning aud going to Turkey as
United States Minister, his service in
Congress would have covered just the
number of years which MIR. Kelley has
to his credit-twenty-six-but his
chances of ever being Father of the
House" are very remote, because there
have been several breaks in his service,
and now, as q candidate for the papa
ship of the House, he must start his
career anew, and behind every man
who has served throughout the forty
ninth Congress. Looking over list
of the members elected to the Fiftieth
Congress, this old member had the Gu
riosity to figure out the nearest heirs
to the distinguished and honored posi-
ton of "Father OF the House," and this
is the List he produced, with the father
at the head:
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TELEGRAPHIC TOPICS.
important News Matters From
Various Quarters.
The Fisheries Dispute and Editor
0'Brien Discussed by LanSdowne.

Lord Lansdowne, the Governor-Generalo Of
Canada, was entertained by the National
Club in Toronto, the other night. In an ad-
dress he said on the fisheries question:
1T must be source of pain that we should
for so many months have been unable to ad-
Just dispute which, although not without
its local importance, is, after all, not one of
first rate magnitude. In spite of all that has
happened, may say that both Governments
have shown the greatest anxiety to avoid any
local action likely to increase the tension or
feeling existing upon the spot: am
surprised. not that there should have been
so much friction upon the spot, but that
there should have been so little. The case
is eminently one in which each side ought to
make some allowance for the other. If each
side will approach the question in moderate
spirit, and with the determination to make
some allowance for the difficulties Of the
other, we need have no apprehension OF the
result.n
He made this reference to Editor O'B,ien:
During our visit a slight touch of cleo
tricity has been perceptible in the atmosphere,
and certain stars have shot madly from their
spheres into your quiet armament. They
have experienced the fate which usually
overtakeS such erratic consultations. The dis
turbaEce has been brief and inconsiderable.
/ trust that it will leave no traces behind it.
As far as am concerned may say that ow-
ing to your kindness this incident has not for
an instant interfered with my happiness or
convenience. might add that it is to the
fact we were not the only visitors of dis
tinction to Toronto that we owe the
extraordinary demonstration of loyalty
and good will which we have experienced.
Your conduct has, in fact, once and for all'
established that the Queens representative in
Canada, so long as his conduct in his official
capacity has not been impugned, 20 long as
his conduct in any other capacity has
not been called in question by constitu-
tional methods in the Legislature either
in Canada or of his own country,
may safely leave his public or private reputa-
ton in the custody of your people 1t has
shown your adherence for the methods of
those who seek to achieve by intimidation
and persecution what they know could not be
obtained by legitimate courses
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MRS. GRANTS health continues to improve
very slowly. 81
QUEEN KAPIoLANI, of Hawaii, Is tho fra
Queen that has crossed the White HouN
threshold, uS
KAISER WILHELM has survived seventy,
two reigniag monarchs who were his cotk'
temporaries Z
JAY GoULD's purchases Of Arkansas landi
cover fully ~, ,OW acres, located In three dit:
ferent counties.
ISAIAH TUPPINs, Mayor Of Reedville, Ohio,
is the first colored man elected to that offct
North of the Ohio River.
JOHN B. FINCH, Chairman Of the National
Committee of the Prohibition party, is going
to Texas to stump the State.
her attendance at the unveiling OF her huS
bands statue in Washington. Her two sons,
however, were present. II
GRAND MASTER WORKMAN PowpERLY ,was
presented with the biggest cowboy hat that
could be found in Denver, and had his photo
graph taken while wearing it.
Mrs. GLADSTONE nearly always accomps
MES her husband to the House Of Commons
and she never fails to wrap stout comforter
round his neck when he leaves for home. q
A FEW years ago Joseph Brown was the
Mayor of st. Louis, rich and ambitious to en-
ter the United States Senate. A local news
paper now records the fact that Mr.. Brown
has just accepted small municipal Office
worth 81, 300 year.
LIEUTENANT FLIPPER, the colored graduate
of West Point, who was dismissed from the
service for malfeasance in Office, is in the syn
dicate which has discovered the old gold and
silver mines in Mexico and the probabilities
are that before long he will be the richest
negro on the continent.
GENERAL BoULANGER. the French War
Minister. is described by recent interviewer
as "a short man, rather stoutly built, with
brown hair, brown beard rather red facei
above all things quiet-looking almost to com,
monplacenesS He wore the ordinary French
civilians dress of black frock coat and
trousers, with only the single red spot in his
buttonhole."
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REDUCED TO ASHES.
A Town in Michigan Completely
Wiped Out of Existence.

A Town in Michigan Completely
Wiped Out of Existence.
A fire broke out the other morning in New
mann & Trelease's general store, at Lake
Linden, in the Lake Superior region of Michi-
gan and rapidly spread to other parts Of the
town, the prevailing dryness greatly adding to
the rapid progress of the flames. At the same
time the town seems to have been partially or
wholly. without the means of making head
way against any serious confagration. The
village is located on the west bank OF
Torch Lake, in the Keweenaw Peninsula
Its population is about 5000. The Calu-
met and Hecla's very valuable stamp
mills are situated there. The village con-
tains a saw mill, three churches, a bank,
newspaper, and the usual complement OF mer-
camille houses and residences. The stamp
directly on the lake, and were unharmed.
The entire business part of the town was
wiped out, only one saloon and one meat mar
ket being saved from the sweeping destruc-
tion. Three hundred families lost every
thing except what they had on
their backs. The helpless situation Of the
town speedily rendered the people panic
stricken and unable to do what little might
have been done to save property:
Both Houghton and Hancock Fire Com
panies responded nobly to the call for assist
ance and did great work. Nearly every
family turned out report great loss of house
hold goods and surplus clothing, the flames
reaching out with such rapidity that house
holders quickly realized that their only safety
was in instant fight.
About 270 buildings in all were destroyed.
The loss will exceed 81 ,0O0, 900, with insurance
Of S5O0, ,0JO to $1,000
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SOME OLD PEOPLE.

WILLIAM INGHAM, OF Danube, N. Y, is
ninety-three years of age.
MRS. MIRIAM BENNETT, of Glendola, N. j.,
who died lately, was 81 years of age.
AFTER living to be GO years of age without
the measles, Mrs. Sally Shackleton, of Della
ware Station died of tkem.
ALTHOUGH Harvey Sanderson, of Spring
field. Mass, is ninety years of age, he goes to
and from his business as regularly as in his
youth.
THE Oldest printer in Canada is William
Brown, of Tiverton. He is ninety years Of
age. and did book work in Scotland for half a
century.
THE combined ages of the Nelson sisters,
three in number, of Sutton, n. H.. make 324
years They were born in the same town IN
which they now live.
THE Oldest man in the State Of New Jersey
died at Browntown on Sunday, May 2S. His
name was James Preston, and he retained
his faculties until the last He was born IN
Scotland in 11S2. and was therefore l05 year
and five ptonths old.